I found Polly Morgan's work very interesting as it is something I have never looked into before. I never thought I would find taxidermy something that would interest me and something I would like to spend time looking at. However I found her work to be really insightful and its a new thing to look at as inspiration to potential future projects.
She explained how she portrays her current or past states of emotion through her work which I think all artists do in some way, whether it's through the objects they use, colour scheme, or lighting.
In the documentary she spoke about how she likes balance and juxtaposition in her work. She uses death to symbolise life which I think is a really interesting concept, and she doesn't put taxidermy in the same context as it is used to being seen, she takes the animal out of the environment its used to being seen in and puts it into a place or object that relates to the animal but in a very unconventional way.
I think she is very professional in the way she works as she connects to people through her work, she gets animals found sent to her by people who support her work which is involving the audience. And she works with a photographer so she can reach an audience that she might not have reached otherwise. Another way of her being seen as professional is that she doesn't seem to be affected by using dead animals as a part of her work, she said in the documentary that she just saw them as just another material to use.
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